Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in School-aged Children   1.9 Disease Course and Risk Factors: Implications for Clinical Practice The groundwork for understanding stages of the disease course in diabetes has been laid by three major longitudinal investigations that have followed school aged children recently …

This week we continue our Homerun Slides series on Advanced Glycation End-products (AGEs) with Part 3, covering the Primary Sources for AGEs, and Reducing or Negating the Effects of AGEs….

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it is time for our patients to start their annual “food drive.” I don’t mean collecting food for charities: I am referring to them eating as much food as possible over the next four weeks. This is the time of year most of our patients …

Medicare Pays for Intensive Obesity Counseling See this week’s Item #1, Medicare Now Pays for Intensive Obesity Counseling.

Striiv — Personal Trainer in Your Pocket A new kind of pedometer: a little gizmo about the size of one of those wireless key fobs. At heart, the Striiv is a pedometer — a little thing you slip in your pocket or clip to your belt to count the number …

Metformin may reduce the risk of diabetes-associated cancers, including breast cancer. Michigan State University pediatrics professor James Trosko and colleagues from South Korea’s Seoul National University focused on the concept that cancers originate from adult human stem cells and that there are many natural and man-made chemicals that enhance the …

Low-dose supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids may protect patients with diabetes and a history of myocardial infarction from ventricular arrhythmia-related events, new data from the Alpha Omega Trial suggest. 1,014 patients aged 60 to 80 years with diabetes were randomly assigned to consume one of four margarines supplemented with daily …

Medicare will pick up the tab for obesity screening and intensive behavioral counseling, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced this week.…

Four months of a restricted-calorie diet produced lasting reductions in pericardial fat and improvements in left ventricular diastolic function in a study of obese adults with type 2 diabetes….

Older women who have high levels of serum glucose are at increased risk for colorectal cancer.…